Improvement in tobacco manufacture



,C.. A. .PILINSKY.

TOBACCO MANUFACTURE.

Patented Dec. 5,1876.

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I CONSTANTINE PILINSKY, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

IMPROVEMENT IN TOBACCO MANUFACTURE.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. [85,046, dated December5, 1876; application filed August 23, 1876.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GONS'IANTINE A. P1-

LINSKY, 0f the city and county of Philadelphia, and State ofPennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement in TreatingLeaf-Tobacco for Smoking Purposes; and I do hereby declare the followingto be a clear and exact description of the nature thereof, sufticient toenable others skilled in In carrying out my invention I proceed asfollows: I employ a boiler of any desired form and construction, and asteam-pipe leading to a closed steaming-chamber having a dishing orconical bottom, and provided with a perforated plate or diaphragm abovethe bottom. The leaves of tobacco will be suspended within thesteaming-chamber and steam admitted into the latter. The leaves will besubjected to the action of the steam for about two and one-half or threehours, so as to be thoroughly saturated with the water from the steam,whereby the tobacco will be softened and its pores opened. The condensedsteam and drip from the tobacco falls to the bottom of the chamber,where, by means of a stop-cock, it may be discharged or collected. Theleaves, as treated, are removed from the steam-cham her and placed in apress, the most suitable form of which is a chamber with a conicalbottom, a perforated plate or diaphragm above the bottom, a plunger, andpressure-screw. The screw will be operated and the leaves subjected topressure for about one half-hour, whereby the existing gum of thetobacco previously solved by steam will be expressed, and it will flowthrough the diaphragm ofthe press to the bottom of the press, Where, bymeans of a stop-cock, it may be discharged or collected. The tobaccowill then be removed from the press, and it is in condition for beingworked into cigars, cigarettes,-or what is'known as smoking tobacco.

It will be found that the expressed gum is black in color, and of apungency offensive to taste and smell; consequently the tobacco divestedof such objectionable constituents may be smoked without injury, andenjoyed, as its delicate flavor is preserved, and it hassufficientstrength without rankness.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is-- The improvement in treating leaf-tobaccofor smoking purposes, the same consistingin subjecting the leaves to thesuccessive actions of steaming and pressing, substantially as and forthe purpose set forth.

0. A. PILINSKY.

Witnesses:

JOHN A. WIEDERSHEIM, H. E. HINDMARSH.

